January 7, 2017 was the onheilsdag for Marchant. In the WB the giant slalom in the Swiss Adelboden, he is unhappy. A helicopter would have to Marchant repatriate. His left leg is heavily damaged: a complex fracture to the tibia, torn ligaments and broken knee cap. Somewhat of an anticlimax for Marchant: a month earlier he had in Val d'isère, the first Belgian man ever points gathered in a wereldbekerrace, as 18th in the slalom.
Exactly two years later, looks Marchant out to his first real skitraining on a stage in the French Alps. Last month he tied for the first time the skis to the indoorpiste in Peer. Marchant held the tel to: “After 707 days to recover. Peer was a great way to start fresh on an easy piste at a moderate speed. I had no fear, my knee was in advance in many situations tested. But this week, in the mountains, I will really a realistic skigevoel.”